jackiknow

For all you uneduacted people who think the volunteer "fire departments" should not be replaced by trained, quality 24/7 professional FIREFIGHTERS...... Place your family in a house, light it on fire and then call 911. Lets see how much confidence you have in the volunteers then. Do I see any takers? Your silence says it all. Thankyou, and please install home sprinklers in your houses, it will give your family time to escape and live while the volunteer "firefighters" decide if they will respond or not.

jackiknow

Rock, get your head out of the ground. The volunteer "firefighters" are NOT dedicated. You call having Loudon County fire units responding and getting on scene first dedicated? You call houses burning to the ground dedicated? You call people dying due to the poor quality of volunters dedicated? No matter how much you can change the volunteers they will not change their old backwards ways. That's why most of the good quality citizens do not volunteer. The volunteer "fire" companies are just clubs with bullies in them. They care more about not giving up their run areas and pretending to be firefighters than the actual citizens they should be protecting. Figures, someone dies due to SLOW response times and you STILL think volunteer "firefighters" should stay. You need help dude. LOL

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rockyw

jack, We live in a rural area server mostly by volunteers. Very dedicated volunteers. Paid firefighters cost money. Taxpayer's money. That fact usually doesn't faze moochers like you. Why don't you get off your sorry****and volunteer to help instead of *itching about the service?

jackiknow

Funny how the Asst. "Fire" Chief of Citizens stated that they were responding in minutes when it acctually took them 14 minutes to start responding to the fire. Looks like someone is trying to pull the wool over the citizen's eyes. It's tragic that people die in fires due to the VERY SLOW response times of the county volunteer "firefighters". WAKE UP people!!!!!! Of course the people of Jefferson county also reelected Shirley... so I guess there is really no hope in Jefferson county.

bigbob2200

One guy crashes 2 years ago in an old plane and all of the sudden its an "air show of death"? You're an idiot. I'm all for not having an air show. Because I think it's a terrible waste of money, not because I'm afraid the sky is falling.

jackiknow

Concerning the fire in Jefferson County: This should be a wake up call for the citizens.... REMOVE the volunteer "firefighters" and place a 24/7 paid professional county fire department in it's place!!!

jackiknow

Thank you for not having the air show of death this year... and hopefully forever. The county residents are MUCH safer now that they will not have aircraft flying in close formations and doing stunts over their houses.